SANCTUARY (LIVE-STREAM AT MSBOOKFESTIVAL.COM)
9:30 am
KidNote: Master Storyteller Kate DiCamillo
10:45 am
In Conversation with Richard Grant
12:00 pm A Life Impossible with Steve Gleason
1:30 pm
In Conversation with Jesmyn Ward
2:45 pm
In Conversation with Erik Larson
RECEPTION
9:30 am
Novels of Time & Place
10:45 am Friendship & Narrative
12:00 pm Editor & Authors:
Novels Edited by Lee Boudreaux
1:30 pm
Cookbooks
2:45 pm
Editor & Authors:
Novels Edited by Jenny Jackson
4:00 pm
Fresh Ink: Debut Novels
FELLOWSHIP CENTER
9:30 am
Art of the South
10:45 am Ezra Jack Keats Award-Winners
& Honorees
12:00 pm South Arts Fellows for Literary Arts
1:30 pm
Picture This!
2:45 pm
In Celebration of Ms. Welty (panel + film)
SANCTUARY
10:45 am Terri Blackstock
ROOM 202
9:30 am
Transforming Lives: The Impact of Prison
Book Clubs on Incarcerated Individuals
10:45 am 1000 Words Workshop
with Jami Attenberg
12:00 pm Mothers Writing: Meander Maps
with Catherine Simone Gray
1:30 pm
Creative Writing Workshop with USM
4:00 pm
Building Characters & Building Worlds
with Liz Egan
TWEEN ROOM
9:30 am
Turn the Page Workshop
with Marshall Ramsey
10:45 am Youth Poetry Writing Workshop
with Catherine Pierce
12:30 pm Bookmaking Workshop with the
Mississippi Museum of Art (2 hours)
Capitol Building Panels
Galloway Church Panels
First Baptist Panel
Capitol Building Workshops
Galloway Kids Workshops
ROOM 103
9:30 am
Page to Screen
10:45 am Rivers of Mississippi
12:00 pm Middle Grade Dreams
2:45 pm
Mississippi Culture
4:00 pm
Pride & Prejudice
ROOM 113
9:30 am
Maritime Madness
10:45 am Reimagining Classics
12:00 pm Food & Memory
1:30 pm
Sebastian Junger
2:45 pm
Mystery
4:00 pm
Literary Fiction
ROOM 201 A
9:30 am
Music
10:45 am
Memoir
12:00 pm The Female Lead in Myth & Fantasy
1:30 pm
Mississippi Memoirs
2:45 pm
Mississippi Youth Poetry Project
4:00 pm
Political Journalism
ROOM 201 H
9:30 am
Speculative Fiction
10:45 am Southern Fiction
12:00 pm The Western Novel
1:30 pm
2024 Presidential Election
2:45 pm
Horror
4:00 pm
Historical Fiction
ROOM 204
9:30 am
Poetry
10:45 am In Conversation with Major Jackson
12:00 pm In Conversation with Natasha Trethewey
1:30 pm
Mad about Madville Press
2:45 pm
Remembering Brad Watson
4:00 pm
Divining the Deep South:
A Three-Genre Conversation
C-SPAN / OLD SUPREME COURT ROOM
9:30 am
African American History
10:45 am Untold Histories of D-Day:
A Conversation with Garrett M. Graff
12:00 pm Pulitzer on the Road:
Investigative Journalism
1:30 pm
Power & Influence
2:45 pm
Pulitzer on the Road:
Award-Winning Biographies
4:00 pm
Reckoning
SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
all programming subject to change.
Scan the QR code to view
any late-breaking changes.
family-friendly